Black Lizard ban

[Julien Seveon]

>From what I understand, Mishima's widow doesn't want any of the movies where 
her late husband stars to be shown in public - whatever may be the subject 
or his role. Black Lizard as well as Yukoku (by the way is there any videos 
of it ?) or Karakkaze Yaro are therefore unavalaible - officialy - for 
screening... which doesn't mean that they haven't been shown recently in 
festivals...

JS


>From: Mitch Cullin <fpunk at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: Black Lizard ban
>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:14:31 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi Jakob:
>
>Black Lizard was available for a time on VHS with
>English subtitles.  You might still be able to track
>down a VHS copy via half.com or even ebay.  As for
>Mishima's widow and family, I do know they've taken
>court action in the past to prevent certain letters
>and works from becoming available.  Not sure what
>action was taken on Black Lizard--but I'm quite
>positive others here in KineJapan have the answers.
>
>Mitch
>
>--- Jakob Abrahamsson <parabellum at telia.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > In some efforts in checking the possibilities to put
> > together a mini-Fukasaku-retrospective for
> > Scandinavia I have on a couple of occasions come
> > across people (including the Japanese company which
> > hold the rights) who refer to the ban on Fukasaku's
> > Black Lizard/Kurotokage.
> > Supposedly it all comes from actions taken by
> > Mishima's widow who supposedly do not like the gay
> > theme of film (not having seen it myself I can't
> > really tell how obvious that is).
> > But could someone fill in the picture?
> > What happened?
> > Was there a scandal in Japan?
> > Did they go to trial?
> > etc?
> > Are there any subtitled prints left?
> > Is available on vhs or dvd anywhere?
> > With or without subtitles?
> > many thanks in advance
> > Jakob Abrahamsson
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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